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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Il giardino dei Finzi Contini (1970)

Drama, Historical, War | Italy, West Germany

Director: Vittorio De Sica

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Rating: 7.3/10

SYNOPSIS

Mussolini's Italy, late 1930s: the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading wealthy Jewish families. Their adult children gather friends for tennis and parties at their lovely grounds, with the rest of the world at bay, while politics close in.

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Writer: Giorgio Bassani, Ugo Pirro

Producer: Artur Brauner, Arthur Cohn

RUNTIME: 94 min

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